Dial of the Seasons
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Published: 2020-03-09
Total Pages: 246
ISBN-13: 9780371582985
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Published: 2020-03-09
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DOWNLOAD EBOOKAuthor: Hal Borland
Publisher: Echo Point Books & Media, LLC
Published: 2022-06-23
Total Pages: 352
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DOWNLOAD EBOOKLiving in a world circumscribed by up-to-the-minute news and electronic tools we barely master before they are out-of-date, we attempt to shield ourselves from environmental events which threaten to overturn our constructed reality. Naturally, in such fast-paced and topsy-turvy surroundings we watch the sky and earth for signs of regularity; looking to the changing seasons for hope and rejuvenation, and seeking out the voices of those who speak of constancy in the changes of the natural world. Hal Borland was such a voice. Every week, beginning in 1941, in the editorial pages of The New York Times he would speak of living on the land—this natural world we all try to understand. In this collection of 365 of his essays, arranged daily within the twelve months, he writes with a familiarity of the ways of the country that is at once humble and resiliently knowledgeable. In Sundial of the Seasons you will find page-long ruminations on such topics as “Fog” (“a unique blend of mood and weather“), “The Bumblebee” (“Bumblebees tolerate man, up to a point”), “Dandelions” (“Neither flood nor drouth seems to discourage it”), and “Fishing” (“The fish caught are only a lesser part of the catch”), all in celebration of the everyday events of life in the country. Begin each day with the gentle wit and wisdom of the person who, for nearly four decades, wrote his “outdoor editorials” in an engaging and inimitable fashion eagerly read by thousands.
Author: Hal Borland
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Published: 1964
Total Pages: 362
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DOWNLOAD EBOOKAuthor: Thomas FISHER (of Pennsylvania.)
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Published: 1845
Total Pages: 228
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DOWNLOAD EBOOKAuthor: Thomas Fisher
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Published: 2016-04-26
Total Pages: 238
ISBN-13: 9781354698457
DOWNLOAD EBOOKAuthor: Thomas Fisher
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Published: 1845
Total Pages: 240
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DOWNLOAD EBOOKOnly edition of this essay that covers a broad range of subjects, including the sun's declination, imaginary flight over the globe, bird migrations, the effects of temperature on diseases, slavery, race and genealogy.
Author: Nathan Sivin
Publisher: Springer Science & Business Media
Published: 2008-12-19
Total Pages: 663
ISBN-13: 0387789561
DOWNLOAD EBOOKChina’s most sophisticated system of computational astronomy was created for a Mongol emperor who could neither read nor write Chinese, to celebrate victory over China after forty years of devastating war. This book explains how and why, and reconstructs the observatory and the science that made it possible. For two thousand years, a fundamental ritual of government was the emperor’s “granting the seasons” to his people at the New Year by issuing an almanac containing an accurate lunisolar calendar. The high point of this tradition was the “Season-granting system” (Shou-shih li, 1280). Its treatise records detailed instructions for computing eclipses of the sun and moon and motions of the planets, based on a rich archive of observations, some ancient and some new. Sivin, the West’s leading scholar of the Chinese sciences, not only recreates the project’s cultural, political, bureaucratic, and personal dimensions, but translates the extensive treatise and explains every procedure in minimally technical language. The book contains many tables, illustrations, and aids to reference. It is clearly written for anyone who wants to understand the fundamental role of science in Chinese history. There is no comparable study of state science in any other early civilization.
Author: Dionysius Lardner
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Published: 1877
Total Pages: 606
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DOWNLOAD EBOOKAuthor: Alfred Gatty
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Published: 2022-10-27
Total Pages: 0
ISBN-13: 9781017119824
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